Random action terminal exiting and redirecting to new thread

Resolved 💬 2 comments Opened Apr 21, 2026 by alexdresko Closed Apr 21, 2026
💡 Likely answer: A maintainer (github-actions[bot], contributor) responded on this thread — see the highlighted reply below.

What version of the Codex App are you using (From “About Codex” dialog)?

26.417.40842

What subscription do you have?

$200

What platform is your computer?

Microsoft Windows NT 10.0.26200.0

What issue are you seeing?

This might be two issues, but it feels like it happens at the same time. I haven't been able to detect a pattern, yet.

Basically, I can run one or more actions (launching a dotnet 10 API and a vue3 app, mostly), and after X amount of time, I'll come back to find that the terminal Window is gone and the application is no longer running.

The other possibly related thing is that I sometimes come back to find that I'm looking at a new thread. No prompt. A mix of previous settings and default settings.

Then again, I've also seen Codex freeze up a few times over the past couple of days, so maybe that's a third thing.

Close the issue if it's trash, or let me know what I can do to improve it.

Love me some Codex App, BTW. Thanks!

What steps can reproduce the bug?

Honestly, I haven't seen these things happen in real time because I prompt and walk away. I'm still looking for a pattern, but I've seen it enough times that I just came here to read every issue title over the past 48 hours. I didn't find anything that matched what I was experiencing, so here we are.

What is the expected behavior?

If I run an action, I want it to run until I tell it to stop. And if it fails for some reason, at least let me know. Maybe the actions are failing and the terminal closes automatically as a response?

And if I'm looking at a thread when I walk away from my computer, I want that thread to be on my computer when I return. I don't want to admit how many threads I juggle sometimes :) , but it can be hard remembering which session I left off on.

Additional information

I will post more information as I continue to experience the problem and notice patterns.

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2 Comments

github-actions[bot] contributor · 4 months ago

Potential duplicates detected. Please review them and close your issue if it is a duplicate.

  • #17494
  • #17661

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alexdresko · 4 months ago

Closing this as a duplicate, at least with regard to the "new chat" thing. I'll keep looking for a pattern regarding the action terminal closing and create a new, separate issue for that if I notice anything.